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Hey all I'm getting a new computer soon with these awsome specs! (See below!) Anyhow here's my questions;

1) My new pc will be Windows Vista however unsure on the bit-rate (whether its a 32bit or 64) could Co* run on both?

2) Would Co* run up to 1920x1200 pixels? (28inch screen! Woooot! )

3) When I reinstall CoH would I have to also reinstall CoV? or could I just download the GVE client? (if there is one ofc!)

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* Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Q9450 Quad Core Processor(2.66GHz,12MB Cache,1333MHz)
* Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium Edition with Service Pack 1
* Coolermaster Cosmos S Ultra Performance Aluminium Chassis with 1000W PSU [upg £ 80.00]
* PCI-Express Mainboard - SLi nForce 780i SLi - Intel Core2Duo/Quad Core - ATX
* 8GB DDR2 800MHz Memory (4 x 2GB)
* 1TB (1000GB) Serial ATA 2 Hard Drive with 32MB Buffer [upg £ 8.52]
* LightScribe Super Format 20x Dual Layer DVD Writer +R/-R/RW/RAM [upg £ 5.00]
* Blu-ray ROM Player Dual layer DVD Writer 24 x CD Writer
* 2x 512MB nVIDIA Geforce 9800GTX (2x VGA - SLi Configuration)
* 28" Widescreen LCD TFT Digital Display with internal speakers (DVI, 3ms) [upg £ 145.00]
* Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Sound Card [upg £ 49.00]
* Creative Inspire A500 - 5.1 Surround Speakers [upg £ 35.00]
* Logitech G11 Gaming Keyboard + MX Revolution Cordless Laser Mouse [upg £ 79.00]
* Free Microsoft® Works® 8.5 + 60 Days Microsoft Office Trial
* Free Cyberlink Video Editing Suite - 7 titles (oem)
* 6x USB 2.0 Ports (10x possible on motherboard)
* 2x IEEE1394 Firewire (onboard)
* 1x Gigabit LAN (onboard)


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The only annoying thing is though my computer will be delievered by the time I go on my residential! Anyhow thanks for answering my questions fellas!


 

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1. Both run it just fine
2. Afaik, yes. (never tested, but 1680/1050 is a fact :P)
3. Nope, the client is a combined CoH/CoV client, based by your account info you get acces to either.


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Awsoooome! Thanks Sinergy!


 

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Just a point - if it's not 64bit, then 5 of your 8 GB of RAM won't work. 32bit Os's can (if memory serves me) only "handle" 4 GB of memory, including video memory. 64 bit ones can (I think) "handle" 16 GB.


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32 bit gives you up to about 3.2 gig of ram from your 8 gig

64 bbit can in theory used 128 gig


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Sooo... technically speaking its 64bit then?


 

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Well hopefully you have the 64bit version of Vista, otherwise you're wasting a lot of memory


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Well hopefully you have the 64bit version of Vista, otherwise you're wasting a lot of memory

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yeah we couldn't find out if its a 64bit or 32 when we were customizing it is there a way to find out what bit rate you got?


 

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*shrug* never used a 64 bit version so I have no clue where it would mention it, except the loading splash and the box, as well as your version-thingy, wherever that may be.


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Well hopefully you have the 64bit version of Vista, otherwise you're wasting a lot of memory

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yeah we couldn't find out if its a 64bit or 32 when we were customizing it is there a way to find out what bit rate you got?

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It is usually mentioned if its Vista 64 as its not standard, but if its only the standard vista they must be complete tools putting that much ram in


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Well hopefully you have the 64bit version of Vista, otherwise you're wasting a lot of memory

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yeah we couldn't find out if its a 64bit or 32 when we were customizing it is there a way to find out what bit rate you got?

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Are you building the PC? Or is someone building it for you? Assuming you're using a legit version of Vista then it will state whether it is x86 (32bit) x64 (64bit) on the installation media (DVD). Might wanna check that out before you sink all of that RAM into in.


 

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....and just so you know, 64bit processors can support 16 exabytes of RAM, which is 16.8 million terabytes


 

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Also, as a bit of pedantry's due, you don't call it a "bit rate" when talking about processors.

The "rate" of something's to do with how fast it's happening (in a PC context, a bit rate of 2Mb/s might be used to describe a broadband connection's speed), but for a processor or OS that's not really what's being described. So, an OS simply is 32 bit or 64 bit, in the same way as an engine capacity simply is 1.6 or 2 litres.


 

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a bit rate of 2Mb/s might be used to describe a broadband connection's speed

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a bit rate of 2Mb/s might be used to describe a broadband connection's speed

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Either.


 

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Both. Your Bandwidth is equal to 2Mb/s.

Bandwidth is the quantity, Mb/s is the unit.

In the same way as the mass of FFM is 2Mkg.


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In the same way as the mass of FFM is 2Mkg.

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The FFM is a standardised unit, commonly used as a shorthand form for measuring the mass of large physical objects, such as bridges, skyscrapers, small moons (and the odd space station) and so forth.

There is a long ongoing debate about whether the FFM should be used in scientific papers, due to the inexplicable prevalence of extraordinarily bright Hawaiian shirts worn by the authors of works that have used the term.

One spokesman for the brightly coloured scientific community that uses the FFM frequently, is heard to have commented "Well, using the FFM without wearing a Hawaiian shirt, is like having Oliver Hardy without Stan Laurel..."


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a bit rate of 2Mb/s might be used to describe a broadband connection's speed

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Either.

[/ QUOTE ]Nope, if we're going to be pedantic, it only tells us the bandwidth. Speed would be measured in ms.


 

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You mean m/s? Milliseconds are units of time.

Strictly speaking Mb/s is a rate (of data transfer).


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a bit rate of 2Mb/s might be used to describe a broadband connection's speed

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Either.

[/ QUOTE ]Nope, if we're going to be pedantic, it only tells us the bandwidth. Speed would be measured in ms.

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Latency is measured in ms (As in Milliseconds)

Speed is measured in m/s (As in Metres per Second - and should be close to 299,792,458 m/s for your internet connection)

Bandwidth is measured in (Giga/Mega/Kilo) bits and is just the amount of data you can shove through your pipe at any given time.

Bitrate is measured in (Giga/Mega/Kilo) bits/second.


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a bit rate of 2Mb/s might be used to describe a broadband connection's speed

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Either.

[/ QUOTE ]Nope, if we're going to be pedantic, it only tells us the bandwidth. Speed would be measured in ms.

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Latency is measured in ms (As in Milliseconds)

Speed is measured in m/s (As in Metres per Second - and should be close to 299,792,458 m/s for your internet connection)

Bandwidth is measured in (Giga/Mega/Kilo) bits and is just the amount of data you can shove through your pipe at any given time.

Bitrate is measured in (Giga/Mega/Kilo) bits/second.

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My little pedantic heart is glowing with pride at all of this.


 

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I just found out that all computers from the site I ordered from are 32bit, so does that mean I'll be wasting some ram or something?